BAKU, Azerbaijan, June 18. The diversification
of the economy is already a reality, but we definitely have to
continue, President Ilham Aliyev said during his speech at the opening ceremony of the 2026 Annual
Meetings of the Islamic Development Bank Group.


"We managed to reduce our foreign debt, which was a target I set
some years ago, and we achieved it – and perhaps even surpassed
what we planned,” the head of state noted.